Zahir Ali; Rashid aman; Ahmed Mahas; Sivakrishna Gundra;
Muhammad Tehseen; Tin Marsic; Rahul Salunke; Amit Subudhi; Sharif Hala;
Samir Hamdan; Arnab Pain; Fadwa Alofi; Afrah Alsomali; Anwar Hashem;
Asim Khogeer; Naif Almontashiri; Malak Abedalthagafi; Norhan Hassan
and Magdy M. Mahfouz. iSCAN: An RT-LAMP-coupled CRISPR-Cas12 module for
rapid, sensitive detection of SARS-CoV-2. Virus Research (2020)
Zahir Ali, Ashwag Shami, Khalid Sedeek, Radwa Kamel, Abdulrahman Alhabsi,
Muhammad Tehseen, Norhan Hassan, Haroon Butt, Ahad Kababji, Samir M. Hamdan and
Magdy M. Mahfouz. Fusion of the Cas9 endonuclease and the VirD2
relaxase facilitates homology-directed repair for
precise genome engineering in rice. Communications Biology (2020)3:44. doi.org/10.1038/s42003-020-0768-
Ahmed Mahas, Rashid Aman,
and Magdy Mahfouz. "CRISPR-Cas13d mediates robust RNA virus interference in plants." Genome Biology 20.1
(2019): 1-16.
Haroon Butt, Agineska Piatek , Lixin Li , Anireddy S N Reddy , Magdy M. Mahfouz (2019).
Multiplex CRISPR Mutagenesis of the Serine/Arginine-Rich (SR) Gene
Family in Rice. Genes (Basel). 2019 Aug 7;10(8). pii: E596. doi:
10.3390/genes10080596.
Rashid Aman,
Ahmed Mahas, Haroon Butt, Zahir Ali, Fatimah Aljedaani and Magdy Mahfouz
(2018). Engineering RNA virus interference via the CRISPR/Cas13
machinery in Arabidopsis. Viruses.2018
Dec 19; 10:732. doi: 10.3390/v10120732.
Education
2004: Ph.D. Molecular Genetics, The Ohio State University, Columbus Ohio, USA .
1997: M.S. Microbial Genetics, Cairo University, Cairo, Egypt.
Research Interests Keywords
Genome engineeringsynthetic biologyBiomanufacturingMolecular VirologyAlternative Splicing and Gene Regulation
